Unemployment recipients urged to keep filing claims

The Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation will begin sending letters to unemployment insurance recipients directing them to continue filing their weekly claims for federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation even though the extended benefit program expires at the end of the year.

Congress has reached a budget agreement that does not include extending EUC benefits at this time. As a result, about 17,000 Nevadans currently receiving EUC will be abruptly cut off. Each week, another 800 claimants who are receiving regular unemployment, which allows for a maximum of 26 weeks, will exhaust their benefits and not be able to move to the EUC program, said Renee Olson, administrator for DETR's Employment Security Division. There are just over 27,000 people on the regular unemployment benefits program.

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Unemployment recipients urged to keep filing claims

The Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation will begin sending letters to unemployment insurance recipients directing them to continue filing their weekly claims for federal Emergency

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